Speaker 1: Who's that knocking at the door. It's all your friends.
Speaker 1: You've filthy horse, your husband's gone, and we've got books
Speaker 1: and a bottle of wine to kill.
Speaker 2: It's Hollywood, it's books, It's gossip.
Speaker 1: I'm shook, its memoir, It's Martinis. Celebrity puff Club, read
Speaker 1: it while it's hot.
Speaker 2: Celebrity poof Club.
Speaker 1: I'll tell your secrets.
Speaker 2: We won't talk celebrity books.
Speaker 1: No boys are a loud cele say it loud and poud.
Speaker 1: Celebrity book Club.
Speaker 2: Buzz me in. I brought the queer Voe.
Speaker 1: Hey Bess, Hey b ooh, are you hungry for more?
Speaker 2: Lily, I'm literally starving.
Speaker 1: I want It's been but a whole week since we
Speaker 1: talked about Keith Acnelli, and I think we have a
Speaker 1: lot more to say.
Speaker 2: We have so much more to say, and honestly like,
Speaker 2: oh god, I'm craving a Martinian soho or red wine
Speaker 2: and meatpack egg.
Speaker 1: Well shake up that gin, mama, because we're going straight
Speaker 1: to soho Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Everyone turn your page to page one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty five, where we love it.
Speaker 1: Let's get into it.
Speaker 2: This whole book is also him just being like, well,
Speaker 2: it costs fourteen point five million to build the bar
Speaker 2: for Luxembourg. But I was raking in eighty million odeon,
Speaker 2: but we owed seventeen point five to build pasties. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's an Alena Waters on the line calimony of sixteen million.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so this whole there's the divorce with Alenos. Basically,
Speaker 1: he has a stroke and he's got three kids with
Speaker 1: his first wife. He's got two kids with a second wife.
Speaker 1: He has a stroke. He's like in London and it's
Speaker 1: like not going well and he wants to go back
Speaker 1: to New York where like his restaurants are and his
Speaker 1: ex wife is and his other kids are, and like
Speaker 1: so he does and Alena and the way he paints
Speaker 1: it is that Aleno like really resents him for it,
Speaker 1: and it's like becomes really kind of mean to his
Speaker 1: like former kids and you.
Speaker 2: Know, uh uh and stops even speaking to the former
Speaker 2: to his first set of children.
Speaker 1: The way he describes her. I I at first, I
Speaker 1: had very little sympathy for hour. It was just like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, he had a stroke, he has an
Speaker 1: ex wife, he has ex kids. Like you can't like
Speaker 1: if she's supportive of him, like that's great, Like don't
Speaker 1: you want more help in this like situation? Don't you
Speaker 1: want more hands on deck? And like you're really gonna
Speaker 1: feel territorial now, Like that just feels so like insecure,
Speaker 1: But as you read on and you remember the relationship,
Speaker 1: you kind of feel like that was an insecurity that
Speaker 1: was maybe always there that's just coming out more. And
Speaker 1: she just never felt like she like he didn't respect
Speaker 1: her as much because Lynn and him were business partners
Speaker 1: and restauranteurs together, and they are so.
Speaker 2: So sang right where it's like, well, the first wife
Speaker 2: who you know, maybe he can really like speak to about,
Speaker 2: you know, the ins and outs of the odeon and
Speaker 2: everything in their lives. But he, you know, fall deeply
Speaker 2: in love for Lena and is so sexually attracted to yeah,
Speaker 2: because she's like amazing because she's her sex and the
Speaker 2: city friends at Pravda, right, I'm just like, well yeah,
Speaker 2: like I mean I was looking at photos, like and
Speaker 2: she's just.
Speaker 1: Like I love cut Stevens because he's so authentic and he's.
Speaker 2: Just like and he's.
Speaker 1: Like myself, this dumb bitch.
Speaker 2: But like and also there's all these you know, and
Speaker 2: Elena's trying if he were if he were coming into
Speaker 2: his hospital room and he's like fully stroke paralyzed and
Speaker 2: they're riding him.
Speaker 1: But the thing is, if you were actually working classroom
Speaker 1: bethnal Green, like he would be like so fucking like
Speaker 1: I hit the jackpot with Elena, Like he would not
Speaker 1: be making her feel inadequate by wanting to talk about
Speaker 1: like plays and fucking Fauvism with Lynn. And in addition
Speaker 1: to like everything, he's salvaging for the restaurant or whatever, right.
Speaker 2: And he has this dig in Elena where he's like,
Speaker 2: I made it. It's so important for me to take
Speaker 2: George and Alice my kids with Elena to like all
Speaker 2: these museums, and I'm always taking them to Hamburg to
Speaker 2: like see this painting. And I was afraid when I
Speaker 2: had my stroke that she wouldn't be doing that. But
Speaker 2: she cared about their education, and he was like kind
Speaker 2: of like, I don't really care about schools.
Speaker 1: Right, He's like, I'm like, I'm so badass. I only
Speaker 1: care about like learning on the streets, but also like
Speaker 1: seeing a fucking dope ass like red painting Byzantine painting.
Speaker 2: Someone recently told me that their friends slept with Henry,
Speaker 2: his oldest son, so.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, the youngest daughter, the one with Elena
Speaker 1: is now like a downtown model.
Speaker 2: Right, She's like around and now they're finally closest.
Speaker 1: She's a next couslata model.
Speaker 2: And she was so team Elena first of all, and
Speaker 2: not speaking to.
Speaker 1: Keith, I mean classic like right, I mean when your dad,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I think it's you know, when your
Speaker 1: dad has a whole other family, it's hard to really
Speaker 1: like take aside.
Speaker 2: And it's like, of course Lynn was the one who
Speaker 2: was like, no, I get it, whatever, like I'll be
Speaker 2: the loyal ex wife and I'll you know, change his
Speaker 2: colostomy again. Yeah, it sounded tense, but then it's like
Speaker 2: there's the scene where Lena's crying being like you've never
Speaker 2: let my family in mmm.
Speaker 1: And he was like it was true. I didn't like
Speaker 1: her family, right, he was like they're random and like
Speaker 1: the dad said in a hotel once on Martha's Vineyard, Okay, wait,
Speaker 1: we have to talk about Martha's vineyard. We have Okay,
Speaker 1: this is so there is a whole basically, there's a
Speaker 1: whole like chapter of the book that just becomes Martha's Vineyard.
Speaker 1: Board of Tourism propaganda.
Speaker 2: And he's like and then I bite along and it's
Speaker 2: chill Mark, And did you know it's actually a historical
Speaker 2: black community.
Speaker 1: I just I need it. Like it was so crazy
Speaker 1: reading this because it's like it was just bringing up
Speaker 1: like my whole childhood and everything that I was taught.
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